English - Writer | June 12, 1802 - June 27, 1876
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
Harriet Martineau
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
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